Overview :

Laboratory automation involves the development of instruments and systems to facilitate, accelerate, and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of research occurring in laboratories.

For example, an important area of research is drug discovery, which is the process by which efficacious drugs are identified. This process usually involves high-throughput screening, wherein large libraries of chemicals are tested for their ability to modify a target, which is a structure involved in the pathology of interest. High-throughput screening systems involve, for example, the ability to rapidly deliver an accurate amount of a very small quantity of liquid to a precise location, such as to one of 96 or 384 or more wells in a micro-titre plate.

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